Citizen Defense for Chileans...and Santiago Times Readers
Defensoria Ciudadana A website where people can log their complaints with corrupt institutions and gov bodies in Chile. Santiago Times brands it as the first but that's inaccurate. Anyone who complains to me would get their complaint broadcasted. Now you know.
I've been at it longer than Defensoría but I'm making my official launch right now in the airport, about to board. I make my first consumer complaint: The Santiago Times. I told those guys way over a year ago how to fucking put a hyperlink in the article and they still can't get it right. They do it like this:
http://www.defensoríaciudadana.com/
no hyperlink just dead text like we were online in the 80's or something, and on top of that it's fucking misspelled which is WRONG because the brave soul who goes through the effort of cutting and pasting will find that the accented "í" is not accurate, rendering this domain:
http://www.xn--defensoraciudadana-oyb.com/
Down with shitty quality and unpaid labor at Santiago Times.
Speaking of that it's impossible to tell, technically, whether this is just a rip-off translation or a real article. It's obviously just a translation afaik but why don't they say so? And if it's not a translation then that's just sad.
I've been at it longer than Defensoría but I'm making my official launch right now in the airport, about to board. I make my first consumer complaint: The Santiago Times. I told those guys way over a year ago how to fucking put a hyperlink in the article and they still can't get it right. They do it like this:
http://www.defensoríaciudadana.com/
no hyperlink just dead text like we were online in the 80's or something, and on top of that it's fucking misspelled which is WRONG because the brave soul who goes through the effort of cutting and pasting will find that the accented "í" is not accurate, rendering this domain:
http://www.xn--defensoraciudadana-oyb.com/
Down with shitty quality and unpaid labor at Santiago Times.
Speaking of that it's impossible to tell, technically, whether this is just a rip-off translation or a real article. It's obviously just a translation afaik but why don't they say so? And if it's not a translation then that's just sad.
posted by Chileno @ 1:59 AM
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Maybe you should actually have the balls to contact the Santiago Times instead of leaving bitch postings on your blog.
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Hey chileno,
Long time since I have commented your good stuff.
In my dreams I know how to do an hypertext link ... :-(
Lago you could learn how to write an html tag with a 2-second google search but there's no expectation for you to know, and so I won't berate you, it wouldn't be fair.
Santiago Times deserves the full weight of my scorn because a) I already taught them and b) they should know anyway. They are a 100% online publication that's been around for over 10 years, it defies ones conception of a safe and happy reality that the ST can't get its act together with something so elementary, let alone start PAYING its writers, like any commercial newspaper should.
euh , actually I did google it, and for more than 2 secs, but didn't print well in my head.
But I'm not a newspaper, either a letter's man :-)
And you're right: it's the minimum a web media should know and do .
hmmm - 'the plot thickens ...';-)
I was puzzled and thought there might have been some 'friction' between you and 'the ST guy'.
Are you back in Stgo now?
Tom
Any number of interns or people who've worked or slaved there will complain about the faulty management, lack of organization. Likewise I'm sure there are valid complaints about how I worked but the bottom line is I got them making a lot more money than they were before and after a year or so I found the environment to be less and less inspiring, I worked less and eventually, naturally, my time there officially ended although we are still on good terms.
I live and work in Paris in the media area.
Actually interns or " stagiaires " as they're called here, slaves as you say , are very very common around " cool jobs". Many companies are only sustainable because of this. As a result,for example , major newspapers as Le Monde or Le figaro ( the french el mercurio) haved recently shown on their websites some head titles with basic orthographic faults.
And this is a country with very restrictive work laws and powerfull unions.
It's a global disease...
Interns shouldn't do more than serve coffee, and they should be paid a stipend for it.
Everything else should be paid professionally.
The trick with interning is that the young are duped into it. The young will always be young.
That said, Santiago Times does give an opportunity for people to get their name and work out there, so it's better than coffee-serving interns. Yet why can't they get their name and work out their and be paid a nominal fee-per-article? Even shoe-string operations that I know of will kick down $100 for a piece of quality journalism from staff members, it's absurd that ST, which has paid subscribers and ample advertising can't - or won't - pay its writers, however green (or not green) they are.
Qué triste situación la tuya Sherman: tener que justificar los fracasos laborales públicamente.
patético...
:-)
I told you it was a boring story, but somebody baited me into it. Although I'm not sure how you conclude "failures" (fracasos) from my description of a work arrangement that lasted for a certain period of time and then ended by mutual agreement. Happens all the time.
If you still want to believe it was a "failure", then more power to you. Don't hire me. Don't even think about asking me. God knows I haven't sought work from Chileans lately ;-)
BTW: Nice sign-in name:
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte
I thought you were dead! You come back to life and all you can think of is to comment on a random blog? Talk about pathetic.
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